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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Methalox rocket engine firing, Odysseus' landing legs absorb first contact with the lunar surface in this wide-angle snapshot from a camera on board the robotic Intuitive Machines Nova-C moon lander. Following the landing on February 22, broken landing legs, visible in the image, ultimately left the lander at rest but tilted. Odysseus' gentle lean into a sloping lunar surface preserved the phone booth-sized lander's ability to operate, collect solar power, and return images and data to Earth. Its exact landing site in the Moon's far south polar region was imaged by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Donated by NASA, the American flag seen on the lander's central panel is 1970 Apollo program flight hardware.

I'm touched, by your kindness.
Happy you are my friend.
A great love I have for you,
helping my broken heart mend.

What price is love,
when what you've known,
has gone away,
and happiness has flown.

Where does one go,
when your love is lost?
There isn't enough money,
to ever justify the cost.

I won't know about today,
I won't know about the morrow.
I know without you,
there won't be a tomorrow.

When Worlds collide,
like yours and mine.
If the love for another develops,
the World is now fine.

I had a terrible loss,
you provided comfort,
to me when I was lost
and you provided support.

I lost control,
letting myself go,
slipping into comfort,
when I should have said no.

I apologize for my error,
of complicating your life.
You never complained,
when I brought strife.

I'll take a break.
A moment of solitude,
clearing my mind
of sadness.

Remembering I have a
circle of friends
and people who love and
support me.
I am most fortunate.

He was a Cat,
from an old neighborhood.
He was a cool cat,
a regular, Johnny B Good.

Not a rocker,
not even close.
He preferred the Blues
lounge music, the most.

Take the beauty,
as it is given.
See what Nature
has provided.

Walk along
a garden path,
with new
growth.
Comparing with
the old.

Daffodils, Tulips,
are there to see.
Watch Dragonflys
and the Bumblebee,

as they fertilize,
each new bud
from their neighbors.
Truly spectacular.

Here we are,
same place,
same time,
Life's embrace.

When love ends,
what happens then?
No more acting,
no let's pretend.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Murriyang, the CSIRO’s Parkes Radio Telescope, points toward a nearly Full Moon in this image from New South Wales, Australia, planet Earth. Bathed in moonlight, the 64 meter dish is receiving weak radio signals from Odysseus, following the robotic lander's February 22 touch down some 300 kilometers north of the Moon's south pole. The landing of Odysseus represents the first U.S. landing on the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Odysseus' tilted orientation on the lunar surface prevents its high-gain antenna from pointing toward Earth. But the sensitivity of the large, steerable Parkes dish significantly improved the reception of data from the experiments delivered to the lunar surface by the robotic moon lander. Of course the Parkes Radio Telescope dish became famous for its superior lunar television reception during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, allowing denizens of planet Earth to watch the first moonwalk.

Photo by John Sarkissian

It was after 10 PM,
the first time we met.
It was a small bar,
I'm still trying to forget.

I called her Helen,
she called me Dear.
Together for 6 months,
then she didn't appear.

I forgot about her,
after a few years.
I saw her again,
and she disappears.

What lessons are learned,
when a close friend goes away?
Don't get too cozy,
they probably won't stay.

Memories, forgotten,
are beginning to show.
Springing from my mind,
from a spot I don't know.

How funny it is,
the way a mind will work,
for writing, if not easy,
is a task I will shirk.

I try to avoid writing,
of those days long ago,
full of sadness in
places, I no longer go.

Thoughts are racing,
through this old head,
then I remember,
you are now dead.

I have a love,
which I no longer can give,
to the one I loved then,
who I wish could still live.